THE KING ATLASBetaA WORLD BETWEEN STORIESSingle-book characters / Named cast
5 named character entries recorded in The Raft. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
These entries belong to this story; they do not establish matches to characters in other books. Read about this work and its recorded connections.
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“Billy DeLois, do you remember him, Deke?” Deke nodded. “Played second string until he got hurt.” “Yeah, I guess so. Anyway, he comes from out that way, and he said the guys who own the beach never take it in until the lake’s almost ready to freeze.
Deke’s football ring—All-Conference, 1981—slid slowly up the third finger of his right hand. The starlight rimmed the gold and played in the minute gutters between the engraved numbers, 19 on one side of the reddish stone, 81 on the other. The ring slid off his finger.
… not looking back at Randy or Rachel or LaVerne, only looking out at the raft, which was anchored about fifty yards out on the lake. Randy looked around, as if to apologize to the girls for getting them into this, but they were looking at Deke—Rachel looking at him was …
Rachel said that summers had seemed to last forever when she was a girl, but now that she was an adult (“a doddering senile nineteen,” Deke joked, and she kicked his ankle), they got shorter every year.
Randy hesitated, but only in his mind, where things took longer—that water’s forty-five degrees, fifty at most, his mind told him. Your heart could stop. He was pre-med, he knew that was true . . . but in the physical world he didn’t hesitate at all.